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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Which part didn't you understand?

I said it last year about the flavor of the month of that time, Fernando Jara, and people wanted to argue with me. Alan Garcia has a great agent and is proving the point that most people have no idea what constitutes a good rider. Garcia loses with more horses that should win than any rider I have seen in my lifetime. Any imbecile could win with the horses he wins on....but most would win with more than a few he loses on.

So Davidowitz' is clueless?

Alan Garcia is a special case. He already seems to be among the top two dozen jockeys in America in very few years of competition. This year, Garcia rode Lahudood to victory in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl at Belmont and the $2 million BC Filly and Mare turf at Monmouth. He rode Shakis to a Grade 2 win in the Bernard Baruch at Saratoga; Dance Away Capote to a Grade 3 score in the Noble Damsel; Makderah to win the Grade 2 New York BC Handicap; and Flashy Bull to win the Grade 3 William D. Schaefer Handicap on the Preakness undercard. Most of those victories were for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who similarly sponsored Fernando Jara to major successes aboard 2006 Horse of the Year Invasor. While Jara lost his confidence and slipped out of the limelight in 2007, Garcia seems more polished.

2 quick drop whip stories-- many years ago a jock by the name of gilberto delgado dropped the whip in the stretch on a horse i had to finish up a pick six that would have paid over $40,000--he lost by a nose

a few days ago a horse i own ran at philly park running off a layoff at 35-1,
just as he was about to make his move on the leader the jock (freites) drops the whip and he finishes 2nd

i hope none of us here get many stories like these, lets hope the ones we play against drop that whip

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Originally Posted by MISTERGEE

i hope none of us here get many stories like these, lets hope the ones we play against drop that whip

I had the misfortune of watching CD 11/24 R8 at my local OTB and thus was able to also watch the headon replay. This was a case where I'd have welcomed Douglas dropping the whip.